On a Windows 2003 SBS server, I am trying to replicate a share via DFS to a Synology File Server.
In the Configure Replication Wizard, the target has a red X across it with the message "Unknown: Not ...

I'm looking into purchasing a new storage backend for our VMware vSphere Essentials package. We have 3 ESXi hosts, currently mainly using DAS. The goal is to upgrade to Essentials Plus this year, to ...

I have a NUT client that requires the UPS it monitors to be named ups. The client (a Synology NAS) does not provide a method to change this configuration. My setup consists of multiple UPSes monitored ...

I have just purchased a DS213j. I have an older single single bay unit that I would like to migrate the data from. Because the previous unit is a one bay, there is no official migration path. Synology ...

Is there any practical way of logging user activity and power state changes on a Synology NAS? I'm not looking for anything very extensively detailed, but I would like to log e.g. Video Station usage ...

I've a Synology NAS with 2 WD Red hard drives. I've enabled the hibernation for the drives, so they stop after 20 minutes inactivity.
However, we use the NAS a lot and the disks get powered up very ...

I'm quite the newbie when it comes to network admin, so please excuse my ignorance!
I have what seems to be a fairly simple-to-solve problem (so I hope!)
Inside my company, we run a Synology Server ...

It looks like one of my hard drives failed in our RAID 6 (4 x 2TB) configuration. Unfortunately, I only have immediate access to a 1TB drive. Would there be an issue with temporarily replacing the 2TB ...

The subject sums up the scenario. I believe the answer is there is no downtime but the system might simply be slower during the rebuild. Which is fine. But if there is downtime, how long? A small blip ...

our office is soon to get a little sister-office in another location. I'm struggling to understand how for example DFS could help get a proper 2-way-synchronisation done between the two locations - ...

I have a box that I want access to from outside the office (Synology NAS). I don't need access to the rest of the subnet, just that box. For the moment it's to use a git repo, but some day maybe file ...

I have a Synology Diskstation DS412+ here configured for Active Directory authentication on the shared folders. I have a shared folder that our backup software writes backups to (so, CIFS).
This all ...

first of all I have to admit that I'm a beginner in this topic. In fact this is my first post.
I have a synology 213J that I want to configure as SMTP server.
I discovered that I needed a domain in ...

We're running a Windows domain (2008 R2 on 2 DC's) with a Synology Rackstation hooked up with all our shares on. We have about ~100 workstations and 30 phones hooked up to the domain (the phones have ...

Need information to install Horde on Synology.
I heard there is a Horde package for Synology, Can someone help me find the link.
I am new and tried in many ways to find it myself before asking.
Thank ...

I am trying to mount folder using the FTP protocol on my Synology.
What I managed to do so far is to use the option mount remote folder of the file station, but you can only mount folders with CIFS ...

I'm in a lab and we share a Synology RS411 with the package 'Cloud Station' installed. We have a folder called 'LabUsers' and several subfolders under it for user-a, user-b, till user-z. Everyone has ...

In short, can I use a WHS as the backup agent to fetch data from our windows-based servers and perform backups to a Synology nas?
We just purchased a Synology 8-bay nas as our onsite backup device. ...

I have built a test environment with a Synology RS812+ and an old HP140 server which has a gigabit nic installed. I have dedicated one nic to the network to DHCP and the direct to NAS from the server ...

I have a NAS (Synology DS411, DSM 4.3) that was configured to be joined to an AD domain. Privileges were appropriately set on the shares and everything was fine.
I (foolishly) changed the name of the ...

I'm running some HP Proliant DL360 G6 servers with vmware esxi, and I have a Synology Diskstation appliance, all connected to a layer3 switch "Cisco Catalyst 4500" in a specific vlan and every server ...

Is it true that Synology DSM 4.3's default rsync implementation is not able to handle "vast" amounts of data and could mess up versioning / deduplication? Could it be that any of the variables (see ...